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...courses in FAS. In the past, we have supported the expansion of course video availability. There is an important difference, however, between making course videos available to course or community members and making them available to the general public. For example, students in some large courses, such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” already report some level of discomfort about the ubiquitous filming of the course’s lectures. To make videos publicly available would fundamentally shift the dynamic of these courses, turning students into characters in a performance (especially during interactive activities such...
...further explanation is needed, of course, to make us understand that this is “bad.” The way these allegations have been painted, it seems that Muslims are the plague of the modern era—the one enemy in a world of crumbling moral fabric and disintegrating Christian ideals—and that Americans might as well resurrect Saddam Hussein and place him in the White House if they are willing to elect a “Muslim” from Illinois with the middle name “Hussein...
...proclaims the existence of force fields, bodily reactions, energies or auras that simply cannot be measured or observed scientifically. The "patients" who pay these docs run the gamut from the hopelessly deceived to the downright self-indulgent. But lest we look down too haughtily on NRWAT providers from the moral high ground of real medicine, we must admit that their patients come back again and again, seemingly happy with the treatments. And they pay them with real money--which seems, alas, to have become the whole idea...
...insist upon credit for the accomplishment. There is wisdom here and not the kind usually found in those books on business leadership that proliferate in airport bookstalls. A wimp or a wuss will not do, and mere popularity and likeability are thin gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense of humor, if not irony, also will not go amiss. Mere charm we can do without, but humanity and civility...
...have confidence in a choice in which we have no vote, we must depend upon the Governing Boards to get it right. This means most especially that the Overseers must do more than apply their customary rubber stamp. They above all must remember that they have a moral duty to assay the intangible qualities essential to an effective presidency. Pro forma consent contributes to the problem and not the solution...